In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

A memory map is the bridge between a system-on-chip (SoC) and the firmware and software that is executed on it. Engineers may assume the map automatically appears, but the reality is much more ...

A multi-peer system using a standard-based PCI Express multi-port switch as the System Interconnect was described in an IDT white paper by Kwok Kong. That white paper described the different address ...

A multi-peer system using a standard-based PCI Express multi-port as the System Interconnect was described in an IDT white paper by Kwok Kong. That white paper described the different address domains ...

AMD's all-new Zen 5 CPU core is going to debut with the launch of its "Strix Point" mobile processors in less than two weeks. However, those parts will largely be paired with soldered-down LPDDR5X ...

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. In the first part of this article, I ...